ETHICAL ISSUES OF HR MANAGEMENT:-

1. Employement Issues:-  HR professionals are likely to face maximum ethical dilemmas in areas of hiring of employees.

a. pressure to hire a friend or relative of a highly placed expenditure.

b. face credentials submitted by a job applicant.

c. about the employee has a experience, successful record, had laid about his educational credentials.

2. Cash and Incentive plans:- cash and incentive plans include basic salaries, annual increments, executive perquisites and long term incentive plans.

   Basic Salaries:

HR managers have to justify a higher level of basic salaries or level of percentage increase with the competitors to retain some employees. In some situations, where increase is larger than normal they have some positions to higher grades.Annual increment. This situation is particularly true in case of top management executives.

Executive Perquisites:-

HR managers sometimes often committed to the ethical burden of which falls on the HR managers.Sometimes the costs of these perquisites are out of proportion to the value added.

3. Employee Discrimination:- 

laws and regulations has been evolved to avoid the practices of treatment of employees on the basis of their caste, sex, religion, disability, age etc. No organisation can openly practice any discriminatory policies, with regard to selection, training, development, appraisal etc. A demanding ethical challenge arises when there is pressure on the HR manager to protect the firm or an individual at the expense of someone belonging to the group. No organisation can openly practice any discriminatory policies, with regard to selection, training, development, appraisal etc. A demanding ethical challenge arises when there is pressure on the HR manager to protect the firm or an individual at the expense of someone belonging to the group. No organisation can openly practice any discriminatory policies, with regard to selection, training, development, appraisal etc. A demanding ethical challenge arises when there is pressure on the HR manager to protect the firm or an individual at the expense of someone belonging to the group.

4. Performance Appraisal:-

 Highly ethical performance appraisal demands that there should be an honest assessment of the performance and steps should be taken to improve the effectiveness of employees. However, HR managers face the dilemma of assigning higher rates to employees who are not deserving them; based on some unrelated factors eg. closeness to the top management. Some employees are, however, given low rates, despite their excellent performance on the basis of factor like caste, religion or not being loyal to the appraiser.

5. Privacy:-  

The private life of an employee which is not affecting his professional life should be free from intrusive and unwarranted actions.

a.  The first dilemma relates to information technology. A firm’s need for information particularly about employees while on job may be at odds with the employee’s privacy.

b.  The second ethical dilemma relates to the AIDS testing. AIDS has become a public health problem.

c. The third ethical dilemma relates to Whistle Blowing. Whistle blowing refers to a public disclosure by former or current employees of any illegal, immoral  practices involving their employers.

6. Safety and Healthy:-

Industrial work is often hazardous to the safety and health of the employees.  Ethical dilemmas of HR managers arise when the justice is denied to the victims by the organisation.

7. Layoffs:-

Restructuring of the organisations often result in layoffs and retrenchments. This is not unethical, if it is conducted in an atmosphere of fairness and equity and with the interests of the affected employees in mind.